Most of the music was religious, but the purpose of communal singing was not primarily spiritual.

Most removals of the clitoris occur as female genital mutilation, defined by the World Health Organisation as " all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

Most proxies for " grievance "-the theory that civil wars begin because of issues of identity, rather than economics-were statistically insignificant, including economic equality, political rights, ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

Most of the manuscripts were created by Christian monks, who may well have been torn between the desire to record their native culture and their religious hostility to pagan beliefs resulting in some of the gods being euhemerized.

Most Jewish Israelis classify themselves as " secular " ( hiloni ), " traditional " ( masorti ), " religious " ( dati ) or Haredi.

Most outers target those who support decisions and further policy, both religious and secular, which discriminate against gay people while they themselves live a clandestine gay existence.

Most presidents have been formal members of a particular church or religious body, and a specific affiliation can be assigned to every president from Garfield on.

Most claim that men and women have complementary, yet different roles in religious life, resulting in different religious obligations.

Most Iranians had a deep respect for the Shi ' a clergy or Ulema, and tended to be religious, traditional, and alienated from the process of Westernization pursued by the Shah.

Most countries of the Middle East and North Africa maintain a dual system of secular courts and religious courts, in which the religious courts mainly regulate marriage and inheritance.

Most of the early Uyghur literary works were translations of Buddhist and Manichean religious texts, but there were also narrative, poetic, and epic works apparently original to the Uyghurs.

Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece.

Most major religious groups are represented including Jewish, Islamic, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, Christian and Catholic.

Most major religious festivals of the main communities are included in the list of national holidays.

Most Reconstructionist Jews reject theism, and instead define themselves as religious naturalists.

Most of the villages have their own temple, mosque or church depending on the local religious following.

Most of them have a church and a " Casa do Povo " ( people's house ), where the village's summer romarias or religious festivities are usually held.

Most channels that serve the entire market are receivable in Kalamazoo, including WWMT, WOOD-TV ( NBC ), WXMI ( Fox ), WZPX ( Ion ) and WLLA ( religious ).

Most of them start wearing a white tudung ( Malaysian version of the Muslim headscarf or hijab ) upon entering secondary school, for religious reasons.

Most of the history of Llandaff centres on its role as a religious site.

Most Ancient Egyptian festivals were religious, but others were not such as one festival established by Rameses III to celebrate his victory over the Libyans.

Most traditional Wiccans worship the god and goddess, and a central part of Wiccan liturgy involves the Great Rite ; an act of actual or symbolic ritual sexual intercourse between the two deities.

Most Egyptian deities were first worshipped by very local cults, and they retained those local centres of worship even as their popularity spread, so that most major cities and towns in Egypt were known as the home of a particular deity.

Most of the knowledge about Ogmios comes from comparisons between him and powerful deities and heroes in other ancient cultures.

Most of these mantras or hymns are concerned with nature and deities.

Most of them represent buddhas, deities and religious personalities and have been built in the 2000s.

Most animal sacrifice in the public religion of ancient Rome resulted in a communal meal and thus involved domestic animals whose flesh was a normal part of the Roman diet ; the dog occurs as a victim most often in magic and private rites for Hecate and other chthonic deities, but was offered publicly at the Lupercalia and two other sacrifices pertaining to grain crops.

Most Ugaritic scholars point out that the dual names of deities in Ugaritic poetry is an essential part of the verse-form and that two names for the same deity are traditionally mentioned in parallel lines.

Most of the traditional dramas are related to deities and demons.

Most mythological stories contained in the Mabinogion collection are collectively titled The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which concentrate largely on the exploits of various British deities who have been Christianised into kings and heroes.

Most deities of Asian religions are depicted as seated on a lotus flower.

Most of the deities ruled over a specific aspect of nature ; for instance, Ukko was the god of the sky and thunder.

Most artwork consists of sculptures used to bring deities to life.

Most important of the ruins is a temple ; the remnants of its sculptures and inscriptions preserve the name of Tiberius and the figures of many deities, including a ( goddess?

Most of the deities portray a ' smiling ' lord in a reclining position over the celestial serpent Adisesha.

* Most Hindu deities are routinely praised in liturgical texts, prayers and chants for being kamal or kamala, lotus, or having lotus attributes such as beauty, purity, cleanliness.

Most Xiantian Dao groups rely heavily on spirit-writing as a means of communicating with the Mother and lower-ranking deities.

Most of their tribes, like the Lugones, worshipped the Celtic god Lugh, and references to other Celtic deities like Taranis or Belenos still remain in the toponomy of the places inhabited by the Astures.

Most of the Hindu deities are shown as having several faces.

Most members of Kemetic Orthodoxy, as part of their devotional practices, set up household shrines to the deities they worship.

Most other Sri Lankan Hindus follow what is commonly known as folk Hinduism without the baggage of philosophical school of thought They usually worship a village, clan or tribal deity within or outside the accepted pantheon of Hindu deities.